Decoding AI’s Open-Source Course Maps Three Ways to Run an Agent Loop and the Provider Economics Behind Each
Most teams treat ‘which model’ as the important decision. The harness engineering literature keeps pointing somewhere else. In LangChain’s Terminal-Bench experiment, changing only the harness—same model throughout—moved a coding agent from roughly 30th place into the top 5. That result reframes the ...
Agentic AI research in 2026 has moved past the basic question of whether a model can be called a tool. The harder questions are whether an agent can finish long workflows, survive live websites, verify its own work, recover from failure, and improve its process over time. The five papers below map t...
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.
Building Agentic Document Intelligence Pipelines: Creating Scientific Figures with AutoFigure
This tutorial explores AutoFigure, a practical toolkit for generating professional scientific figures directly from text descriptions and research papers. We walk through setting up the environment, configuring an API-backed generation workflow, and converting complex document intelligence pipelines...
Anthropic Brings Claude Mythos 5 to Claude Security: Enterprise Teams Get Frontier Vulnerability Scanning Without Direct Model Access
Anthropic has moved its most cyber-capable model into a product security teams can switch on themselves. Claude Security scans now run on Claude Mythos 5, in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers with no separate model add-on. The scan connects to a GitHub repository, traces data flows across ...
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
Turning Codex from an interactive assistant into a programmable automation component
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Estimating from No Data: Deriving a Continuous Score from Categories
A walkthrough of and the maths behind using low-capacity networks to acquire fine-grained scoring when only categorical labelling is available for training
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Samuel Yeboah, Francesco Di Chiara and Mingliang LiuToday, Netflix runs two Flink autoscalers. That is exactly one more than we want. We built the first one in-house years ago, when there was no mature option suited to our platform. The second came from the Apache Flink community, and it can scale w...
The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a y...
CrowdStrike Leads Frost Radar™ in Cloud Workload Protection for Fourth Time
CrowdStrike named the “strongest overall leader” as runtime-first security becomes the standard for cloud and AI workload protection CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named the “strongest overall leader” in the 2026 Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) for th...
Senteon Earns Black Hat USA 2026 Startup Spotlight Recognition
Recognition highlights Senteon’s innovative approach to eliminating configuration drift and strengthening endpoint security Senteon, a cybersecurity platform focused on automated endpoint hardening and continuous configuration management, announced that it received an Honorable Mention in the Black ...
IKS Health Implements Scribble Select at Western Washington Medical Group
Scribble Select gives clinicians flexibility to fluidly choose ambient AI documentation type to fit clinician workflows and care settings IKS Health, a global leader in care enablement solutions supporting clinical, administrative, and financial efficiencies across the patient journey, today announc...
Towards On-Board Implementation of ML-Based Helicopter Weight Estimator
arXiv:2608.19210v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper focuses on the implementation of a novel supervised Machine Learning model for estimating helicopter weight during takeoff, utilizing extensive datasets from Airbus's global in-service fleet. The study details a learning assurance process a...
Holtercare-Bench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Term Dynamic ECG Analysis
arXiv:2608.19297v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel in medical applications, most of them favor static images or short-term signals. In the critical field of dynamic electrocardiograms (ECG), models struggle with complex temporal reasoning and diagno...
Improved Confidence Estimates for Black-Box Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.19323v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for the safe deployment of large language models (LLMs). Existing methods, from verbalized confidence to ones requiring multiple generations, are often zero-shot and produce scores quantifying uncertainty w...
OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era
PDFs are easy to read and hard to change. AI can now summarize a 90-page contract in seconds, but it still won't rewrite the source file cleanly. UPDF is built for that second half: direct editing, 14-format conversion, 38-language OCR, and ten AI agents shipped in version 2.5.
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Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.